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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
AGAINST ALL ODDS.
Text: *‘l L.,u finished the work whit.’'
thou pa vest me to do/’—John xvii, 4.
is Profound >atisfaction in the
° ' T ‘ y U und ' l takm g' W e put uo
the tap-tone with exhileration, while <A
, 1 P} 11 ? 1 ' there is noth.ng more d:s
nn i , ian t 0 tell on in some direction
orui find it is a; a lure, or to make a profit
ess investment. Christ came to Build a
; a^ :l wl ‘ i ‘hi whole hi,rnan ra c
kf, 1 ’ A„ h ? v choso ’ mo ' dnt - into heaven. He
„ A 1 th ® >°ut rnouthel crew who trod
: ,u not hinder him from the
i J Ue , MU V ,a '' I<m expressed in the text:
uot ■ and 10i * werk which thou gavest
Ale an lor the Great was wounded, and it
was supposed that he was dying, and the
pin me an, w re powerless. Bit in hs dream
Ale ander rhought ho aw a certain plaat
- *ii**ir flower, and that the
‘“7 w ” -‘ought and hut pon liis wound
nd it entirely cured li.in. Awa.ing from
his si k dream he told his doctor, and the
pnjsicinn sent out to find the liovvor that
Alexander ha 1 ands ribed, and lie found the
I"tiiliar plant and the peculiar hlo<s nn, and
' ,i ou ht th.*m homo nn i he put them upon
ii.e wound, and A exaudor recovero i. Well,
the h man race was suffering with the
worst of nil wounds, the ghastlie t of an
v unds h ■ wound ol tin, Llni.st comes to
linn : a bai Ulu f or di. iue restoration. He
nt’U ht it, Put in the up; lication of it. oh,
1,, w many obsta li s He found; how much
resistance; what bn ter ho.tilities; what tre
nien toils opp s.tiou. Now, when wo have a
gr.'at enti*. prise, wo cab our tr ends around
us aim they H Jj. us draw out the sketch, an l
*7r ' i:, l''’ -‘.V help us iii tln- execution. Christ
nuaiouc siarted outmi ilis miss < n with all
tno for. ( s of ihis world again-t Him, and 1
propose this morning, il the ix)rd w.ll help
Jll you s .mo of the obstacles that
1 nil t had to over, omo before He could in
Irmmph utter th • w. rds of t .etext: “1 have
nnißa, <i the vvt rk which thou gave,t me tj
First of all, there was liis worldly occupa
tion. if., had i.o earn liis living by carpentry,
u ti ado a 1 wax’. rt-qveto I and always honored
f.ii its moiulucss. B it you know very well
that in order t i su-ce and in any trade, occu
lat loti, or pr. fusion, tliere must be entire
couceutiati. n up n t. at one thing, and these
fatigues of car entry vv-ro i iiiudra i. o. must
have be it a hindran e to this vvorko’’Christ
I know v, o read a great dt al about whatmeii
nave n. h.ov rd in intellectual dire, tions and
m moial reform, who at the same time were
compel.cd ti(any on sme worldly oc/upa
ti°n. But you know as well as
1 do that u fatigued body is a poor
alpmi to a toil l g min 1. Hero ca:no Christ
forih to do, wliatf To upbuild a kingdom,
to iutrodu e anew code ol morals, to start a
ivlig.onwhi. il was to revolutionize all na
tions. \ou know as well a; 1 know that if
wo a o going to a-co.nplis'i anything in the
world v>. must • n outto upon one ob oct.
' et 11 re Christ had ail the fatigues of car
| entry, while at the s ime time He had this
tremendous m snon, and theta t tiiat he had
m> miuh worldly wo kt> do must have been
a h ndrnn o. In 11 is faiher s carpenter shop
He had only to talk until men vvh > luo .glit
tilings t ) mend, or vvh > wanted some
ti; t ele for ngri uUurv manufactured,
aiid it was a worldly conversation;
and right out r..in tins ea■.■pouter’s shop
Christ is called to be a pub ie speaker, to
stand m tlie ta e ot the mobs while some
bla.sphem • I and some sh ok their li-ts at
linn. To addlesi an ord icv and res; e tful
assemblage is not as .a ,v ass nuo might sup
p( se,but to .peak to an exns; erated mob,
what com ago, what con.vntratiou were de
manded ot ( hri l. While the villagers of
Nn nielli hoard th ■ thumping of liis ham
mer, all nations wore to hoar the stroke of
liis spiritual upbuilding. Mighty men
in those times a. ways lull some
thing in their apparel to in ii ate
that they were distinguished soma
epaulet, something in their robe, some
a tom.cent of apparel, so those people see
ing mi han ono coming would say: ‘‘Make
way lor him; hero conics a dignitary, or an
o li. or oi tlie government ’ None of the
( osar, would have dated to appeal' in ordi
nary i ili on sdie s. Bi t here comes Chrht
ill a plain c< at. it was fur ram shabby 1> >
cause 1 1 1 ii 1 that after lie had viy.rn it a great
while even 111 u the gam lers thought it
worth in ling about, the question being
whose slia l it le. But. still it was a plain
coat, jU->t us you and 1 might wear, and He
went out like an ordinary man, ofttimos,
< n what so m.'d nn ordinary mission.
Then lis diet was against Him. Nc
cupb aver brought, in a gold -ii chalice, the
wire tor Him to drink. 11c beak tested on
th ■ son shore, lir-t. having broi.cd tin fish,
lie went o t. no: oatertaiuod. 1 now think
of o lv • i • a ■ whetc He was a" a banquet,
iar ironisum tuous, because, io
/
m m I!o ; i vi !e same wine lor the
\ T V
V raid an a I and
and; lip wont among tho e who
Other kiu,s slept un
ii i. n r anopy ; He oua sholter
** ' ““out one— n a cot, and
lye, His ; over.y was
lakov money to e -
; i: takes money t'
CALL AN F " ii. th r for good or
> 'nni:e>s ( hrist. When
had to perform amiru.de
-ax. Ti e pie eof mon y
■ft _ p Men f means are afraid
IVIT'S \-i t. r lest a loan le do
Here comes Christ vv.t’.i
--.e world, a Christ who was
i .u. in imuan's ! arn, and to be buried
). tiler man's ul.dlro. Atld 1 suppose
do said: Who is to pay for tins re
\\ ho is to charter the ships
are to carry tho missionaries r
■■>l is to nay tho sal&rie ef the
wC I'l-s. W ha* pall down an established
[ j Im; Can i. ti done by a penniless p. o
l " >’ v than that. 1 want you to
that the vonsideratio'u that
&ra .hinted irom any school
ai. H a man has come with
' collage.or a oertith ate from
Take pl.'.isme f t, ' avel ! e ’ l lhr ,V' h u '. n ; ! f a
1 . , t > ourselves: lie oneht to
In- that '*' , ‘.V a l,anvhovv ; In-ought to have
PAH
1 liLlLl lUlv vI ei ko ( oald h.ave learned
i. -.i f th.'language He spo. e. The
t H ‘USible when they cried out:
How ha;h ;i: s man let.ers. having never
learned .j A i yet. hero.with n ' ptiiksophy
back ng ' all. He just comes out and He
evpoci< tipse while haiiwl these gray
bearded uien wh > la 1 studied theology all
their li.<> lona t• b <vv Before him. We have
lean.e 1 in our Jiv that a man may Be as ig
norant with a diploma as without it. and
tha a colleg© cannot turn a slusrgard into"a
phil soph !-, ..11L that a seminary cannot
tea 'li a tool to pr .1 h. Au empty head after
the laying no; the urn is of the Presbytery
Is empty-i 11. lut it choke 1 a.I the preju
dices of those people ia ol Jen times that a
man without nnv scholastic opportunities
should come forth to tea h anew theolory
and anew religion, and by it revolutionize all
nati >u-. Beside that, my friends, we want
t 1 notice that the Brevity of Ilis life was
again-t 11 m. You must remenil er that He
dil net live t ) e cu whs t we call mid li e.
At thirty-three veal's of a:e ho ev. Bed.
Web. now. but very few men accomplish
inti hf r t e char li or for the world l>e o -e
thirty tinea years of age. The first fifteen
Tear• a e g.veu tutli' nursery an l .h.'srlioel.
then perhaps six years to getting uto s.nue
tra le. I -i s w occupation. That brings
you t) twenty- re. Tu natter that it in ten
ye ".-x yo 1 coire.'t ai vourea lv mistakes and
go - • shed, yon are
ce: ti n Tii men who are thoroughly e.*-
ta. lishod in b s ues-', occupation, prole--, n
ir trade, at th.it.'-threeyea:sof age, a>c the
evee tion, aad tffnt is ti e tme a' which
Biir si ;uit life Th brevity- of His ife was
again't Him. Men iu military life have
a h e >d gna? -access, ad fought g. eat bat
tles - cfoi e thirty-three years > f age. but you
n ver heard "t a-great leg.-lat -r under thirty
three or at tii* ty three. It takes prolonged
exper eore A i-ffotle was old. Lvcurrus vva
o’d. kene a wa- old. all the great legislator
of the wo' 11 were old Ca ist was youn?.
It vrss against Him. People sad: “It can not
lie tuts young n an knows more about the;*
things than those vvh v have l e?n study! g
them for twenty, thirty, f rt van i ev-u tosev
e tv or e ; lisf y year of age. I: was all against
Him. Thi-e" were lie* les Id? ha 1 to"over
corn ' Ave, the fa -t tin it H ■ rev rs.M the
world's maxims was a_-a n-t Hun. Public
theory said: “Blessed is the merchant who
owns a a -ti-v down on tb* t auk of the la e
Galde?.'’ Chri-t -ad: “Blessed are tha
pour.” P iblic theory said: “B ed is the
man who has all nds or festivi.y. an 1 amid
statuary, and amid all luxuries", lives and
regns.” Christ sail: “Ble-sed are they
that mourn ’’ Public theory said: “Blessed
L- the Roman eagle, the flap of whose wings
startles all nations, and whose cruel
beak iniiiCvS cruelty, upca all who ojv
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toe. Christ said: “Blef'el are the
ner ifui. ’ Public theory said: “An eye
fer an eye, a tooth for a tooth: if a man
knocks your eye out, you knock his out: if
he breaks your tooth, von break his to th;
sarcasm for sarcasm, persecution for perse
cut on; pnv a man in his own coin, wound
for wound Christ said: ‘ Prav for them
who despitefully use and torment you.” Was
there anything so re volutionary? AVas there
anything that struck thg thrones oftheworid
:o violently hack? Tliev h--*lt the solid ea r th
■ ‘ ■ ” but Christ said: -‘I uphold the
pillars of the earth.’ They looked nt tlie
PJ 0 - 1 }- Christ said: ‘ I will turn it into
\}r \ J he y} at the Stars. He sail:
* " ill shake them down like untimely’figs.”
Do you wond“i that the world was sta-1 "and
and overwhelmed ? AVere not all th—e
tii ngs again-t him? After the Imt
tlo of Autietam,. when the soldiers were
down, thor uglily e:h msted, aad ono
(> Ahem t 11 in >he did not think lie could
have * ifud his hand t > save his life, it was
told that a favorit® gon ral vas coining
alo_;g the line, and 1 ■ m theyall got tip
,ln <i they gave lb: ■ using oh ers—
‘•hu/z-i. huzza, huzza.' Although a f. vv
J* omenta 1e: •he r elt th< ycin and hardlv
liit a haul to save their life. Ho
great was the magnetism of some
men. Napoleon after his first cap
tivity put his foot on tlie earth and it
shook all king loins, an 1 "Ti,oo) men gath
ered to hi.s standard. Bit ('hrist had a more
wo dorful magnetism than f at. Napoleon
had a'! around him the memories >f Maren ;o
a dAu tedit and Jena. Hero conies a man
wph no parade, no brandi.-.hed swerd. no
peculiarity of apyarel, ami comra'a
tively uo reoutation Ido not now think
of any re oarkable person 00:1ns ted vvi h His
uai:'..i 1 ept hi - m >ther, and she s . poor that
in Iho im t sole an hour that overcomes t>
a vvorna . onl sh; must be down among the
a uel drivers gvoo :::ng thoir boarsts of b ir
ds'u. Ah! not .vit::-,landing all this, what do
VO tS3 ' A man nice s Him on the street
some . ag' and says: ‘ M father was in guv
e nine’ll, and mv grandfather and great
grandfather. who was your father?’
( hrist '-avs: “My earthly father was Jo
se ih, the carponts”' ’ Another mail meets
Christ and he unrolls liis scroll and says:
‘Here as a di"lonia from the best school in
A\’h >1" did 3*ou g a luatof’ Chiist
sav :"i mjver gradual d.” It vv is as though
srm • liltio fishing v illa ,0 on Long Island
-honld arraign New York. Oh, what a stir
Ho maim 1! If you hav • am did to call it
m.a net:, in of j or. on cell it that, but what a
st riio:. a :es. He com s into a village and th m
He steps out int ) til" liol Is,and ail the people
g ■ ait ‘i- Tfi 11, and though th y lnd taken oll)7
eu ■ 1 h ! -d to ast a day, they are so fas
cinated with Christ they follow right clear
l ut :niu tho wildaroess, and in danger of
star vat on. A min fall.-; iliifc on the grouui
liefo eCh. it, and ;,avs: “My daughter is
dead, my da ghter is dead. ’ A blind man
tr st., rub th. Jin:!! ■ 5 out of his eyes, and
h-r says: “i/rd, that my eyes might be
opened/ Tno light of day pours through
i l '- that has tie er before been opened.
And : ere com s a sick an i fainting woman.
She ay ■: *'li' 1 ould just t inch the hem of
ms garment -tiiat is all.” And the little
cli lira wh :: waj * liked th >ir mothers b>
I ire .-; tig- led io gee out ol their mothers’
aruis. Ih.", wante 11 >go to Christ's arms
ami th-y wantal to kiss his cheek,
und th -y wanted to run their fingers
through hi. h lir. in 1 they put Him so in leva
w.tu ! hildivu that there i- h i-.-dlv a horn i on
earth f n o which Christ has not taken one.
“ h,’ lie suy.s. • l must have then. lam go
ing to ina •' Hoa eaof these. To one cedar
that 1 plant in Heaven, 1 plant fifty white
liiios. The children loved me ou earth, and
now 1 ha vo coni ' to a throne, ought not I
in l.c.c ' ii. v. ~ iag mother,hold not
ba-ktha' child. La" it on mv'oviug a'ld
"boon. Of ;uoh is the Kingdom
of Hcave:i.”
1 u e more I renlark, iack of r.r.g'inization
was a gains' Him. If men are going to carry
out any grea project thSv band together,
aud their su - on is generally in proportion
to the cooipb-teness ot ihe organization.
Wno can t li low much can be a com
plisli and tiy a lar :;e iminber of men banded
together for a riulit object. Christ had
no su h asso.'iafion. 110 oae to back
hi 11 up. If pe iplo came into His
com; any. nil right— it they went away, all
well. W!i n t ey came, uo load salutation.
When they vw-ut aw ay, no followin g o'
anathema, i’el t left lli’H, and wha' did
Christ d>' Th - Bible says He io iked at him.
T tat all. I h,my !r ends, d-d anyone ever
thco'-iJcUea 1. ob-.t.-e A.- ct-nl t-uu tlirniglv
su.'h obsta -les 1 1 achieve such success? Not
withstanding bis worldly occupation
was against Him an l' liis trade
an l libs diet were against Him, and
His poverty wa-;against Him, and His lack
of s iioolin r was a ainst Him, an 1 tin
lire ity of His life was against Him, and tin
eversal of public 1 tims was again-t Him,
and lack of organization was against Him.
yet you hear His v. ico th s m truing ringing
tbrough the ages in everlasting cadences:
“I have finished tin work which 1110.1 gavest
me to .1 ' (Vi yes, C.irist is a
conqueror. See how Ho con ;uoro l all the
for. os ofnature. The Atlantic 1 )eean—vvh it
a terribl > shimg it is in its wrath. Hop the
ocean will take down the Spaui-h Anna ia,
in' t lie Proc-ident, or the Central Ameri a as
eas lv as it c >al l swallow a by. Bat i have
been told by those who have visited
Asia M nor that a st rin on those
inland lans is worse. An 1 yet
Ch i-t came nil 1 He looked at one of tho-e
gna inland seas in cyclone aid the sea
cron bed before Him au 1 li iked His feet.
He kuevv all tho winds aud th l waves. He
beckoned and they came. He frowned
and they tied. The heel of His foot
made no imleutati >ll on the solidified
water as H' waived it. In the ba k
part of the teat sound asleep. “v>h, v you
say. “poor man poor Christ, so tired, sound
asleep in the 1 a k ran of the boat.” Br.t He
rou-es up. ll' comes to the prow of the
boat He looks out. He has two words, one
for ibo winds aud the other for tho sea, aad
he says: “Pea •->, be siill" and lae wave.-
crouch l.ke whipped spaniels at his feet!
•Ho !•.' Ar.-e IK-us! Behold the niah
Behold the Go 11
Medical scien. e his done much f- r the al
-1 vaton rbi ui:ati ail neats an Ito cure
dis-ui- dUo i; but when the mu are all
withe:ed up no human power c.tn ever re
store them. When the hand and the arm are
dead, they are dead. Put here is a para ytic
hi the 1 reseuce of Christ. Arm p rfectlv
unless, helpless. Christ sees it. He could
uo s.i any.hu gof that kin l without pity
ing it. tie .-ays to this man with tht
paralytic aim, "stiebh iort'a thy ba>ul.
He st ret- hed it forth whole as tne e-titer.
AVcc /'<- Behold the God I Aud there is
the fi-h of the sou. No human v ice ever
Cv muii'.u led a school of fish, but Christ’!
voice m; rshais the finny tribe, and they
come in a place vvh re a little vvhiiti
before people were fishing and haul
ing in uotuing; now toe peoole again
pull the net, au i they pull until the net
breaks. There is the grave. The hinges of
the family va fit get very ru-ty became the
door is so sel lom opened. It is only when
some of us go in to stay th're for the list
sleep A knob on the outside of the door of
the "family vault, but no knob within. The
knob ou the out id? we open to pass in. but
no knob ou tie inside. They vv .0 pass in
stay there until the r - irre -rion. ChrLteame
through all tbit real a and He said: “Daugh
ter of Jairus rise up" She ro-e up. He
sai i- “La arus. come" for:h,” au l be ca ne
forth. And He-aid to the widow's son:
“Get off that bier aud go heme with thy
tn.'Uirr." Th - sm r.-ose and went home w th
fibs mo he -. Then Chris: pi -ked up the keys
ht and a:h and ia<t nc l them to His girdle.au 1
uttered a voi e vvhi h stih r>s van is through
all the graveya >1; of tie earth: Ob. d 1 ith,
I vvil. bo th v olaguel Oh. grave. I will be
thv fie traction:'’
I do not lmow auy lia'ter illustration of
tb v. grio .- -u -
tt’.an I coul 1 tan 1 in the Brotherhood tuts
dnv here presented au i her * we -o nei vv;rh
ail our litrU" -. Vi arious suffering. We
sometimes ta k as though i: were- an abstra t
word, and we try to illust ate it this
way and that way. But it Las
been illustrated in the lives of
that profession and occupation perhaps
as in*i:o ot ie-. There is not a railroad ia
the United States tha: his not been tiies ene
of heroic eniurarce ou the part- of railroad
engineers—-a scene worthy of poet's canto
ail pui ter'- pen il aui scu!r-t ir's chls.J
an ib? rislator's appropriation. Taere he is,
pa-ung along rapidly. He is a* his post
There his be m some wrong order
given, or there has been some re ikies ness,
s. m_- wh ' e. aud ‘-hire comes the tram and wn
on the same 1 a-k again't him at the ra*<? of
fi tv tni’e the ho'ir 3:audiag at his p t h?
sav's; “What < all I dob for bvw much a
man can think in a se-oal. “>h iU I vama
and save my lie aad be the sup ort of
my hMule s family, or shad I stand
here and sa'e mv th~ee buul"ei i-a-;-
sengers. Oh G and hilHe co :.es to uiick
tie isiou. aud Le übnits to iii > awf :1 *bao
ri-m ■: Siv an 1 - .1 ling an i whirlwind and
uo sup to take h. p a e a uoug th' m irtyrs
before the throne Th re is cna boot tiiat
ue -is to l -i written, aui it ceeis to b; ea
titlai: "T..? Mcrtyr Loth motive Engineers
of Atuerica.” I am glad they are
putting into a roem a beautiful scene enacted
on one of the Western prairiea Au er.gin er
passing along day after day -aw a little girl
come out in front of her father's cabin and
wave to him and he waved ba k. and every
day that was the joy of the old engineer's
heart, as passing along in his locomotive over
the prairies the little child ame and waved to
him and he waved back. But one evening the
train was belated and it was belated until
the dar.mess came on, and by the headlight
of the locomotive, the old en gineer saw that
little child on the track. She had come out
locking for the old engineer. She won
derod v.by so long he tanned. She
know not her peril. When tho old
engineer saw the little girl on the track a
great horror froze his soul. lie reverse 1 the
engine an 1 leave! over on the cowcatcher,
and though the train was slowing uo and
slowing un very much, it did seem to tha
old engineer as if it wer9 gaining in
velocity. But standing there and wait
ing for the right moment, with almost
supernatural clutch he sei ed her and fell
back 011 the cowcatcher. The train halted,
the passengers came around to see what was
th" matter, and there lay the old enziueer
fainted dead away, with the little child all
unhurt in his a-ms. He had saved her.
Bravo! you say, bravo! for the o'd engineer.
But behold my Christ, the son of God.
When long trains of disaster were criming
down on the nations—long trains of ever
lasting woe and darkness and doom, He
went out in his own Almighty strength and
snat hed us out of the doom, and snatched
us out of darkness, Himself peri ling in the
sacrifi e. Oh, tho grandeur of the vieari us
suffering of the Son of God who laid down
Hisli e for you and for ino. Oh, His g are—
it is so high, it is so deep, it is so long, it is so
bmad. Yes, yes. We ha ve a sympathiser
in this Christ. I know that. You cannot
tell, my brother, you cannot toll, my sister,
you cannot tell Christ anything about
suffering. Ha hai ben thiough it all.
You will never have a lal a3
heavy to carry as the load He carried up tha
bloody mount. You will never have any
suffering worse than that which Christ felt
whaa, with tongue hot and parched aud
ora-Iced and swollen, He oriel out: “I
thirst!” Ab, you wi'l never have any
worse en amias than Christ had.
They hailed down His prayers au i they
snuffed 11 > with glee the smell of His blood.
This day I lay His crushed heart at your feet.
Ob, He must have been tremendo isly in
earnest, or all tha obsta des would ha ve
driven Him back. Bit, u>. 110. Ha comes
right 011. and He is here more certainly than
you and I are here, for Ida Mils all tha place
with His prenance, au 1 I put His crushed
heart at your feet. Oil, let it not be told in
Heaven that after all your opporlaities of
a repting this Christ, and after a’l that
Christ has done for you, you despised His
g race aud put off this opportunity. Many of
you I see for the rii st time an l the last time.
It is so every Sabbath morning aud it
is so every Sabbath night. I se3 you
on -e and then never again until tha great
throne of judgment is lift and and th v shall
coma from the North aud the South aad tho
Fast aid th * West. We will all be there.
H >we ver deep down iu tha earth we may
be buried we will h *ar tha blast of tho great
trumpet, and we shall cone up. we shall
come up. Aud yet I h ive to tell you this
morning—aid it break; my heart to
tell you—that notwithstan ling al! that
Christ has done became of His rejection,
all His magnificent work anl all the story of
ero ;s and crown aiul tlnras are for soma
people a dead failure. Helena, tlie Empress,
went out to find in the Holy Land a cross,
tha particular cross on which Christ was
crucified, and tradition says—of course there
was superstition mingled with the tradition
—tradition says three crosse <woreexhnma 1.
They did not know which of the three was
the cross of Christ, so they took a dea l lo lv
and put it upon one cross and the body
moved not. Then they took the dead body
and put it upon tha sacoud cross, bat the
body moved not. Then they t >ok the
dead body and they put it upon the
third cross and it sprang into life—it
sprang info life. It may have baea—-that
story may have been mere tradition or super
stition; but it is not a surei-stitioa that in the
cross of the Son of God there is a life giving
power for your dead soul and mine. .“Awake,
thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead
and Christ shall give thee life.”
Aged BiralTei.
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A Plugged Half Dollar.
‘‘Youngman!” shouted the retail to
bacconist, “didn’t I caution you to keep
your eyes peeled for plugged silver
coins?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Mel!, here’s a plugged half dollar
which you must have taken in this after
noon while I was out.”
“Yes, sir, I know I did.”
“You knew it was plugged and yet
you accepted it:”
“Yes, sir. I hadn’t the moral courage
to refuse. ”
_“v h. you hadn't? Well, on Saturday
night you can take your pay and go. I
don't want a boy here who will let a
scoundrel impose on him iu that fashion.
Would you know the despicable villain
again?”
“Oh, yes, sir; I know him well.”
“Who was it .”
“Your father.” — Detroit Free Press.
More in His Line.
“Something to eat?” echoed the
woman, as shv faced the tramp on the
door.-t p : “yes. if you will c-arn it.”
“I shall be glad to, ma’am. ”
i “Well, there’s the wood pile, and I’ll
bring out the saw and axe.’’
“i.xactiy. ma'am, but perhaps you'd
prefer to heur me play something on the
; piano? ltcally, ma’am, while sawing
! wood does not disagree with me, the
l piano is more in my line. - ’
“Oh, well, come iu,” she sad. as -he
i hel l the door open. “There’s so verv
little difference that we won't step to
argue. There's the piano, and while you
jingle I’ll have tho girl r-et off a
luncheon. "D.-roi Free Frets.
His Mind Elsewhere.
Professor (who has told the youngf
to bring in an essay on an original sub
ject'—“Well, Mr. Saunders, what have
you got to-day?”
Colleg an - who has spent the summei
a? a waiter at one of the mountain hotels)
“Er—roast beef, roast pork, fish and
corn-beef hash.’— hd-Ei-s.
Pursue the iame Course.
“If a lady is beautiful, my son,’’ said
a latter-day Lord Chesterfield, “never
fail to refe-r to her beauty.”
“What am I to do when the lady is
plain?”
“Just the same; stick to the beauty.”
—A tiz York &un.
An Apt Comparison.
The life insurance agent had been talk
ing st a lily for only an hour r-o, when
the vict m perceiving a chance to get a
word in edgeways, remarked:
“Do you know you remind me of sud
den de th.”
• -How -o ”
•‘Nobody is safe ficm eith r of vou.”
BATHS OF HAKONE.
SCENES AT A NOTED JAPANESE
HEALTH RESORT.
A Naiive Correspondent Describes a
Place Frequented by Invalids
—Traveling by tlie Kago—
A Japanese Hotel.
Ter. M. Uycno, a Japanese sends the
following letter from Hakone, Japan,
to tho New York Commercial Advertiser :
Hakone is a g ncric name given to a
range of mountains some fifty miles away
from Tokio, and it is one of the summer
1 -ort- for the people of the capital.
Tin -0 mountains divide the island of
Nippon into two parts, and there is a
steep path over them, connecting one
. art with the other. The length of this
pa’ll is some twenty-five miles from end
to end, and is supposed to be the most
difficult of the mountain passes in the
country. (J 11 top of the e mountains,
and about the midway of the path, there
used to stand, in old feudal times, a
strong gate, wh re every passer by was
required to identify hiaiself before the
officers in ch irge. On whatever busi
ness he might be, should lie fail to satisfy
the offir ers, lie was not allowed to pass
through. How such a law could have
successfully been carrie 1 out is simply a
matter of story to the ideas of the
pie ent generation. Fe it as it may,
along the spot where the pld feudal
gale u e l to stand there is a large lake,
and on one of the islands in the lake an
imperial summer palace has, of recent
years, been built. From this fact alone
the reader mny at once conclude that
Hakone must be a nice and cool summer
resort. The waters of the lake run down
the mountains on all sides, forming sev
eral little rapids. On and near one of
these rapids there are tens of hot springs
scattered about. As you walk down from
the lake, on the eastern side of the moun
tains, through a narrow ] ath (not the
wide traveling road),you will find village
after village. Some of the buildings are
so large and fine that you will be sure to
think that they are something more than
the houses of peasants. These are the
“hot spring towns ’ of Hakone. Formerly
there vzere seven of these places aud they
are called tho “seven lrot springs” of
Hakone. Eut, of late, new hot spring
beds have been discovered and a number
6f new towns started. This is not all.
Tn some of the towns you find springs of
cold mineral water as well, home towns
are built on plateaus, while others are at
the bottom of valleys. The scenery must
of necessity be various.
I am now writing this letter in a val
ley village where I have specially come
down for the purpose of enjoying the
moonlight. It is full moon this evening,
and she is so clear and beautiful that the
locust is singing and the crow is crying.
Right in front of the window where I
am waiting there are a couple of small
waterfalls, and the waters of these falls
rustling against the rocks and those of
the rapids dashing against the stones add
grandeur and sublimity to the beauty of
the evening. Last evening I engaged a
couple of fishermen and they and I
jumped from stone to stone, crossed and
repressed the rapids. In an hour or so
we cought a number of fish by netting.
Now to return to the hot spring con
cern. The hotels of these hot springs
villages are run in nearly the same style,
and a brief description of one is sufficient
for all.
j- Mtt La '.Mil t.a fuat o; t.
very simple arrangement. The kago ie
a framework made of bamboos; at the
bottom a few bamboos are framed up
like a tray and in front and rear a few
more bamboos are framed up. On top
you have a bamboo roof; and a great big
wooden pole passe; through the arrange
ment lengthwise, right under the roof.
You enter from the side. The size is
only as much as is necessary—about two
feet wide, three feet long and three feet
high. It is not vry comfortable to sit
in it, however you have enteied it. Two
men, unless you sp daily require a third,
come before and after the kago and carry
you with the pole on their shoulders.
As you arrive at a hotel you are
greeted by the pro rietor, his wife, sons,
daughters, bookkeepers, porters, boys,
chambermaids and all. Some of them
will h.-lp you to take shoes off ahd show
the way to your room. One neat look
ing girl brings you a cup of tea and tray
of sweets; another will bring you a
Japanese gown. You change your cloth
ing for the gown; then dap your hands
and someone will answer you and show
you down the way to the bath room.
Most of the hotels have many bathrooms,
to meet the requirements of visitors. The
het springs are usually located at the
sid ■ of valleys, and long bamboo pipes
carry ttie water into the towns. Some
bath rooms have the waters failing over
your head; others are made to rush out
from the bottom of the bath. Some bath
rooms have arrangements of cold water
baths as well as the hot. 1 have visited
several of the origins of these hot springs.
They al! rush out from crevices of rocks,
and they are so hot that you cannot put
your finger iu it without burning it.
They have ali been chemically ana
lyzed by competent men and by them pro
imunced a; of greet medical service to
all suits of diseases.
Open the Windows.
Di ectly the sun begins to decline, let
every maiden end housewife, and man
and v.oman and child, with an eve for
the picturesque an l a feeling for health
an 1 beauty, throw up the'V enetian and
1 arisian blinds. ( pen your rooms to the
glories of the evening; throw up and
pull down the sashes; cpen wide all your
doors. Let cool bee os enter into cor
ridor a :d c 11; r and garret and room; let
the ‘-caller" air circulate through every
inch of the house hour after hour, while
you ar getting your evening meal, while
you soy your pray is, while you think of
ti ers after the toils of the day. If it be
your priceless lot to dwell ap ;rt from city
life, and have outside your cottage or
villa or m nsion fower-. those lovely
gifts of Dame Nature, let scents of rose
and thyme come in it every gap in the
hedge, at every rift of the wall, at every
era any of the hou-e—scents of rosemary
and mignonette, and lavender and ber
g:v. of. and lily and elderberry. Wel
come the deli' ate perfume on its coo ing,
refreshing, healthy mission. It is Hy
geia's gift—a superlative boon for the
dog days.— C7mnn-W Jo r,<al
The Ruling Passion.
llLtory records that Napoleon in his
dying delirium imagined himself once
more at the head of the array. In like
manner the ruling passion was strong in
deutu in the case of General B. F.
t heitham, one of the most brilliant
southern officer * and ring the civil war,
who died at fa hville recently. As he
was -inking into unconsciousness a pass
im; wagon ri cabled on ths street.
• There gn the troops 1” exclaimed the
dying man. “Brin; me my ho~se; lam
going to the front!-’ And with this ex
clamation he expired.
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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A French botanist has enumerated 373
species of plants growing in Greenland,
and ho finds that they resemble those of
Lapland more than those of the American
continent.
A lately deceased French doctor spent
his life in studying distorted mankind,
and made a largo collection of skeletons
of deformed persons. This unique
museum is about to be sold in Paris, and
is expected to realize the sum of $6,000.
The active principle of cod-liver oil, of
which it forms from one and a half to six
per cent., has been obtained by Dr.
Lafarge of Paris, and is said to have
given excellent results when used iu place
of the crude oil. The substance is-called
morrhuol, and contains twelve times as
much iodine, bromine and phosphorus as
the original oil, with none of the fat.
A history of herbaria lias been written
by Dr. Saint Lager of Lyons. From this
it appears that the oldest collections of
pressed plants now extant, or partially
so, are those of Aldrovandi, begun about
1553, aud containing ut least 5,000
specimens; of Girault, of Lyons, dated
1558, and of C'esalpin, dated 1653. The
collections are now in Bologna, Paris aud
Florence.
In order to settle the question as to the
proper treatment for persons who have
been frozen, Dr. Laptchinski has made a
series of very careful experiments upon
dogs. He found that of 20 animals
treated by the method of gradual resusci
tation in a cold room 14 perished; of
20 placed at once in a warm room, eight
died, while 20 put i*wneditely into a
hot bath recovered quickly and without
accident.
Mr. E. Yung has been ascertaining tho
nature of the influence of salt water on
the development of the larva- of the frog.
The tadpole perishes in from three to
twenty minutes in the water of the Med
iterranean, containing four per cent, of
salts, aud in a few hours in a solution of
marine salts in the proportion of one
per cent. But it may hr adapted to au
existence in salt water by a gradual pre
paration through a series of solutions of
from two to eight per 1,000.
"VVhy have Yellow Fever? Singularly
flattering reports continue to be made
concerning Dr. Domingos Freiro’s sys
tem of preventive inoculation in yellow
fever. A late one to the Paris Biograph-
ical Society states that during the three
hot months in Brazil ending with Feb
ruary last, 3,051 subjects were inoculat
ed in Rio de Janeiro, and not one had
the fever, whereas, in the same districts
and houses 278 non-vaccinatcd suc
cumbed to the disease. What is more
remarkable is tiiat severe cases were
inoculated in the second stage of the
disease, and all recovered.
Shower (ffondi.
A paper recently read before the Royal
Meteorological Society in London gives
the results of a scries of observations to
determine the connection between the
“blackness" of a cloud and the heaving-s
of the shower which falls from it. Tile
writer found that from clouds the thick
ness of which did not exceed 2,000 feet
the rain is always slight, while the rain
drops are rather minute. As the shower
clouds increase in thickuess the amount
of rain and the size of the raindrops
proportionately increase, and the clouds
from which hailstorms come reach a
thickness of over 10,000 feet. It is very
noticeable also that as the cloud thickens
the raindrops which fall from it are
colder. It is suggested that condensa
tion begins on the upper surface of the
cloud by the cooling of the liquid clou ■
particles. In this view it is easy to see
how hailstones (the formation of which
is still a mystery with many peon’e) can
be found in the middle iatitui’.s. C• -
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